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Has anyone tried medialink for ps3 by nulldriver for OS X?
http://www.nullriver.com/products/medialink
shadylane
03-19-2008, 12:00 PM
interested in getting info from you guys on this too. is it possible to get stuff from the ps3 hardrive to your mac?
EDIT: whoops! Sorry to piggyback on this. hope you don't mind!!
interested in getting info from you guys on this too. is it possible to get stuff from the ps3 hardrive to your mac?
EDIT: whoops! Sorry to piggyback on this. hope you don't mind!!
I don't mind at all dude. I just downloaded the demo of it but it only lasts ~30 minutes. I was having trouble playing video's that I downloaded through iTunes. I know CheapyD has a mac. I wonder if he has it or has used it. I've used Connect360 for 360 which is another media server app for OS X.
snowsquirrel
03-19-2008, 03:53 PM
use mediatomb. I use it on linux, and it kicks arse. _way_faster than tversity, and is free.
~S
mguiddy
03-19-2008, 04:06 PM
use mediatomb. I use it on linux, and it kicks arse. _way_faster than tversity, and is free.
~S
What he said.
It's also worth noting that mediatomb (http://mediatomb.cc/) is available for OS X (via fink) and maybe windows (via Cygwin).
What he said.
It's also worth noting that mediatomb (http://mediatomb.cc/) is available for OS X and maybe windows (via Cygwin).
yeah... but mediatomb requires OS X to use fink.
mguiddy
03-19-2008, 04:28 PM
yeah... but mediatomb requires OS X to use fink.
Is that a bad thing?
torifile
03-19-2008, 08:04 PM
I've used it and it worked ok but I had a problem with it looking in the wrong place for my iTunes music so it wouldn't play stuff unless I navigated directories. I emailed support and got nothing back. Nullriver has pretty bad customer support. They've got a free trial available.
shadylane
03-19-2008, 08:27 PM
i'm going to try the demo tonight and see how it works
mrlogical
03-19-2008, 08:28 PM
I used Medialink and it worked great for me. Movies and music both worked great. ( I speak in past-tense because I abandoned my mac, Medialink always worked fine)
I used Medialink and it worked great for me. Movies and music both worked great. ( I speak in past-tense because I abandoned my mac, Medialink always worked fine)
Did you ever buy music off the itunes store and play it on the ps3?
I wanted to try it on the trial but i think it limits it since it's a demo.
Is that a bad thing?
I don't know is it? It feels like an extra step. Is it involved at all ? It seems like just extra foot work and from reading the release notes for mediatomb it seems an unstable platform.
mguiddy
03-20-2008, 12:11 AM
I don't know is it? It feels like an extra step. Is it involved at all ? It seems like just extra foot work and from reading the release notes for mediatomb it seems an unstable platform.
I don't know, my iBook has been out of commission with a dead hard drive (probably from dropping it five too many times) for months so I can't try it out to see if it is a hassle. From what I've read on the fink homepage it doesn't seem like it'd be much more work, but I'm used to compiling stuff from source, so I might not be a good judge. I've found this (http://www.applesource.com.au/how-to/how-to-stream-media-to-a-ps3-from-a-mac/210/) howto on how to install fink and mediatomb on OS X.
As for mediatomb being stable, I haven't encountered any problems with it. Though I'm not sure it'll stream iTunes drm'ed music.